Thanks for putting this together @Kaz. Definitely agree we’re at a pivotal transition period for Greenpill. We really need to think deeply about how to formalize some structures so the Network can continue to grow as an anti-fragile DAO of DAOs that is both highly interconnected internally and with the rest of the space.
The concept of Greenpill as a brand is the conclusion that Puncar from How to DAO came to when he was kind enough to shoot the shit with @afo @Coi and I a while back. Makes a lot of sense from a fully zoomed out view.
Feels like we need to discuss the overall restructuring of things before really diving into how the specifics should be managed. I’m about to post a reply into this broader proposal thread with some more detailed thoughts that tie into my response below - Open Space To Share Proposals For Network Structure & Strategy
I do think we should have working groups and also individuals in charge of specific tasks but not sure if we should have a Brand Council. Or maybe the opposite is the case, and if interest exists then having a decent sized group where things are distributed enough and nobody is required to exert much bandwidth could also play well. It depends on the scope of the rest of the org structure and the interest that exists to contribute. But we don’t actually have a legal structure in place to police anything so not sure it makes sense to have a council whose sole focus is branding. We def should define if/when we should politely message parties and ask them to stop doing something though and maybe how we address things publicly.
Defining what it means to be an active Chapter/Guild in good standing is slightly different than the requirements to be eligible in a Regen Coordination grant round but as usual solid documentation is the solution there. Can hopefully agree on some system involving all the Stewards for dealing with an individual/group that is acting in a way that requires a response from the Network. But as long as we continue to scale slow and steady I doubt that will come into play or require much effort. I think curation of resources is the biggest aspect of this and not sure we should have a working group specifically for that. Have some thoughts on a more distributed curation concept in the paragraph below.
Agree with @SwiftEvo that signaling pools are a solid idea. Kinda think we can use it for curation of resources and communities that we endorse/promote on socials/greenpill.network and actively try to support/use within Chapters and Guilds. GreenWill can help us get more granular with vote weight and requirements for approval (two thresholds are how many people need to allocate some conviction and how much conviction total). There’s a lot of rich onchain data that can be factored in. Could even have Chapter impact accounting be distributed across the individual Steward/Leads/Contributors within Chapters for the purpose of vote weight. And the time weighting you mentioned makes sense. Can define how to actually remove something from the curated map but in general I think we just build out from there. Between everything the Greenpill and Regen Coordination touches it should expand pretty easily. Can lean on the Carbon Copy ReFi landscape as well ReFi Landscape | CARBON Copy.
Having elections/votes for roles and task management is definitely a good move. Once the wheels are in motion and we have a structure to enact change as needed then we will no longer be stuck in this state where it is hard to say how we should actually decide on stuff. The optimal pathway is also heavily influenced by compensation plans and in the short/medium term I think we should strive to keep things as minimalist as possible to extend our financial runway.
Your section on Keiretsu makes a ton of sense and I really like that framing. But yeah, we mostly just gotta define requirements. Think sharing revenue/profit/equity/tokens is opt in for now but as long as we are organized than as usual it can’t hurt to start to organize ideas on how something like that could work if somebody was interested. My gut right now says that should be pretty deep on the backburner but hypothetically yeah we should absolutely figure out how to make the most of capital and help each other. I think a higher priority is coming up with how Network funds travel to Chapters/Guild/Pods outside of grant rounds and how that is tied to standardized impact reporting.